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This is Joan. She is 83 and didn't think she would be well enough to go to the polls today to vote for @ewarren, but accepted our offer for a ride after we found out we could have a ballot brought out to her while she sat in the car. 
We actually had to go to the polling place TWICE because of Virginia's voter ID law. But Joan persisted! And she wanted to make sure @ewarren knew it.
Hortensia, Roman orator, 42 BCE, denouncing the new women-only taxes of oppressive authoritarians: "Why should we pay taxes when we have no part in the honors, the commands, the state-craft for which you contend against each other with such harmful results? #VoteWarren 1/5
2/5 "Because this is a time of war, you claim? When have there not been wars, & when have taxes ever been imposed on women, exempted by their sex among all humanity? Our mothers once made contributions when you were in danger of losing the whole empire to Carthage. #VoteWarren
3/5 But then they contributed voluntarily, not from their landed properties, their farmlands, their dowries, or their houses, without which life and happiness is not possible for free women, but only out of their own jewelry, not under fear of informers or accusers. #VoteWarren
